The War That Left No Record

271 years ago today, four bullets missed George Washington. He spent the rest of his life inside a war the record never saw.

Four holes in the coat. Not one in the man.

Last weekend a lot of you went to see Young Washington. More are going this weekend. I see it tomorrow. And it was on 271 years ago this very day that he rode into the ambush on the Monongahela.

We tell it as the origin of a general. But it is the origin of a question.

He was 23 and sick with fever. Of the 1300 m…